Little Ault Lake, Ontario: Fishing Spots and Seasons

• Overview

  Within Thunder Bay District, Ontario, you have Little Ault Lake. The surroundings are spruce and muskeg. The water measures roughly 6 hectares, so nothing here is far from anything else. Most waters listed here for Thunder Bay District are larger. Schreiber lies 30 km from the water. The big place round here is Thunder Bay, 137 km distant. This one is safely inside the county line.

• Where to Fish on Little Ault Lake

  There is no published depth for this one, so start shallow and work out. A soft bed grows weed late into autumn, which keeps fish shallow. A natural lake fishes on cover, and cover here means weed and timber. Open biodiversity records for Thunder Bay District list cisco, blackfin cisco, rainbow smelt, bloater and shortjaw cisco. What holds for the county may not hold for this water. At Little Ault Lake light and wind decide more than tackle does.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Long-term averages put July at about 16°C and January near -17°C. Open water arrives late and leaves early, which concentrates the fishing. Count the season from break-up, usually early May. Break-up near early May, freeze-up near mid November: that is the shape of an average year. The strong weeks are the first after break-up and the last before the freeze. Plan around that when you fish Little Ault Lake.

• Tackle & Baits

  The access position is unclear from public sources. Access is unmapped, which usually means a farm track and a walk. A light spinning outfit with a small box of lures and some bait covers most of what swims here. Where a permit is needed, the nearest town usually sells it. Night access is frequently treated as a separate matter. Should this one be busy, Ault Lake is 1.3 km off. What applies at Little Ault Lake may have changed since it was mapped.